23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his [a]natural face (A)in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, [b]he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. 25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, (B)the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but [c]an effectual doer, this man will be (C)blessed in [d]what he does.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:23 Lit the face of his birth; or nature
  2. James 1:24 Lit and he
  3. James 1:25 Lit a doer of a work
  4. James 1:25 Lit his doing